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Deadlines > Story Points
A few devs have asked me recently why we don’t use story points. For many, it’s the first time they’ve worked on a team that doesn’t use them. And yet we ship. Consistently.
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The More Product I Do, the Less I Care About Engineering
I’d never thought I’d say this, but hear me out. I’m old. I’ve been doing software engineering for a while now. I’ve built scalable systems, written architecture guidelines, enforced code quality, and fought the good fight in code reviews. But lately, they all feel… less important. I still care about the craft. And with AI-assisted…
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Why Code in Production is the Only Code that Matters
Recently, one of the devs in my team asked why I’m so obsessed with getting things into production. “Why can’t they stay in UAT for a while?” they said. And I replied, “Code that isn’t in production is a liability. What we write only has value when it’s being used.” And then I’m like this…
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Shadowtrainer Update: social sharing
Because the best part of working out is telling the world about it. It was actually quiet easy to build, the hard part was deciding what app “story” to share to others. 2 scenarios people might want to do: #2 is hard because it means building the whole flow for capturing and editing video. An…
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I made an App, now what?
I just released an app. To the App Store. It’s there, live and asking to be bought.
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Is your company about to go to war?
Ever worked in a company for a while and notice the vibe changed? You and your team have been grinding hard and now the pace has slowed down and you find yourself spending 3 months discussing a button change? Or the opposite: the company used to be more laid back and now the deadlines are…
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2022 Year Retro
Because everyone seems to be doing them, here’s mine. 2022 handed me some major personal life changes. But that’s private and I should be talking career and tech stuff here. Work wise, 2022 turned out to be a year of uncertainty. It was like living on quicksand, it’s not that bad if you ignore everything…
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How to use CircleCI to deploy a static site to Cloud Storage instead of S3
Fun fact: you can host websites in S3. For single page apps (SPAs) I would always recommend this approach since it’s cheaper and more resilient than hosting nginx to serve mere static content. Put a CDN like Cloudfront in front of it and you have a fast, resilient, and cheap static site. I wanted…
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I’m clouding, yo!
This blog is now clouded, yo. And I have a new domain name too. Thanks to my newly gained experience in cloud and networking magic and, more importantly, my longtime webhosting provider jumping the shark I finally migrated to technology’s latest buzzword. Philwebservices Started Sucking I loved PWS. They did an excellent job despite being…
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